Tag: infrastructure

  • Protecting Your Country While Protecting Your Clients

    Channel Insider Staff

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    Recently I was surprised to learn how far espionage has moved from the traditional Cold War spying that focused on the Russians stealing our government secrets, to a new type of espionage designed to steal trade secrets and intellectual property.   The targets aren’t all multi-national corporations, but include small businesses like the ones we service.… Read more

  • Ciscos Spending Spree 18 Acquisitions

    Ciscos Spending Spree 18 Acquisitions

    Jessica Davis

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    Ciscos Spending Spree 18 Acquisitions newScale – March, 2011• Software that offers a service catalog and self-service portal for cloud services. • Privately held. Terms not disclosed. No Title Inlet Technologies – February, 2011• Adaptive Bit Rate (ABR) digital media processing platforms to strengthen Cisco’s Videoscape TV platform.• Privately held. Price: $95 million cash No… Read more

  • Russian Mob

    Russian Mob

    Ericka Chickowski

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    Russian Mob The big bad wolves in the world of cybercrime, Russian mobsters control a huge hunk of the identity theft and fraud black market. Access to tokens that would get them more easily into banking and financial industry systems would further fuel their profitable enterprises. China When government types talk about cyberwarfare threats, the… Read more

  • Healthcare IT Priorities for 2011 An Inside Look

    Healthcare IT Priorities for 2011 An Inside Look

    Ericka Chickowski

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    Healthcare IT Priorities for 2011 An Inside Look Currently HIMSS reports that the average information systems operating expense is about 2.4 percent of total expenses for U.S. hospitals. No Title Approximately 76 percent of respondents said their organization’s operating budget for 2011 would increase over 2010. No Title Close to half said their budget would… Read more

  • An Inside View Todays Data Center

    An Inside View Todays Data Center

    Elliot Markowitz

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    An Inside View Todays Data Center The Gloucester County Institute of Technology, Sewell, N.J., recently embarked on a $500,000 technology infrastructure upgrade. As part of this massive initiative, the school called in integrator Rick Tashman of Syscom Technologies, Blue Bell, Pa., to help design, deploy and service a new data center optimizing the latest virtualization,… Read more

  • Cisco Partner Summit Report: Big Private Cloud Growth Ahead

    Chris Talbot

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    NEW ORLEANS — Cisco told channel partners gathered here this week for the Cisco Partner Summit that it’s not looking to become a cloud provider itself. Rather, Cisco executives said, the company wants to enable channel partners to build cloud architecture and develop cloud services to sell to customers using Cisco gear. To help, Cisco… Read more